August 6-7, 2009
The last two days of this conference were just as busy as the start of the week. Thursday was spent attending the Disney educators meeting where Disney presented the work they had recently done with our students this past summer.
July 31, 2009
Disney in Aggieland
At the beginning of the summer, I mentioned that our department remains very active all year. During the summer sessions, our students participate in an industry-animation-course…
July 23, 2009 Super 3D I experienced a couple of cool video-geek-moments this week, starting with a little collaborative work with the Immerse Visualization Center (IVC). Ben (friend, and current viz-student) works for the Institute for Scientific Computation, the organization that operates the IVC. Ben asked me if they could use some of my stereoscopic [...]
June 11, 2009
When the recent swine-flu pandemic became big news, I believed everyone started overreacting. The university canceled all business travel to Mexico, and most public areas on campus were plastered with flu-prevention propaganda.
June 2, 2009 A Busy Summer Every year, when the spring semester has come to a close, someone will say “I bet you’re glad summer is here so you’ll have a break.” *LAUGH* Whatever! Our department remains very active all year. During the summer sessions, students in the lab get the opportunity to participate in [...]
May 27, 2009 For the past few years, folks from my department (and friends) have had access to prescreenings of feature animated films from DreamWorks. This week, we finally got the same deal for a PIXAR film. Margaret managed to get about 100 free tickets for a prescreening of Up. The only catch…we had to [...]
May 16, 2009 Saturday afternoon, Glenn, Ruben and I drove southeast to the Christmas Ranch in the Sam Houston National Forest. It just so happens that this private estate located within the borders of a national forest is the home of my friend and former viz-student, Trisha. Her father turns their country home into a [...]
May 6-8, 2009 Business at the Viz Lab has been both exciting and exhausting. Why? Because we’re growing. Without any major increases in our budget (or staff) we’re supporting our existing graduate program and our new under-grad program. All of the students’ hard work was showcased is the VIST show (for the undergrads) and Viz-a-go-go [...]
